While building on the skills you already have, Expert SQL Server 2005 Development will help you become an even better developer by focusing on best practices and demonstrating how to design high-performance, maintainable database applications. This book starts by reintroducing the database as a integral part of the software development ecosystem. You'll learn how to think about SQL Server development as you would any other software development. For example, there's no reason you can't architect and test database routines just as you would architect and test application code. And nothing should stop you from implementing the types of exception handling and security rules that are considered so important in other tiers, even if they are usually ignored in the database.

You'll learn how to apply development methodologies like these to produce high-quality encryption and SQLCLR solutions. Furthermore, you'll discover how to exploit a variety of tools that SQL Server offers in order to properly use dynamic SQL and to improve concurrency in your applications. Finally, you'll become well versed in implementing spatial
and temporal database designs, as well as approaching graph and hierarchy problems.

Ragdoll Masters is an experiment in the world of 2D beat 'em' ups with the use of ragdoll physics. In this game you control a stylized martial arts master, making his way through stronger and stronger opponents with spectacular moves and impressive blows. It features some of the most sophisticated physics ever used in 2D games and plenty of other neat effects. Try it, you'll like it.

BeFaster is a connection speed up toolkit with some powerful tools. It optimizes AOL, Symantec PcAnyWhere, IE, Opera, Dial-up modem, Lan, Wireless, Cable Modem, xDSL, ISDN, T1, DirecPc and Cable/DSL running PPPoE. Manual or Automatic optimization. Multi-language support. It will improve your online/network gaming speed. Super-Ping Tool prevents connection drops and Ping Now Function awakes suspended modems. Have a faster connection now!

Is your PC becoming increasingly slow and unstable?

MemOptimizer™ monitors your system in the background and frees resources when these are required. The result is that your programs will run faster and be more stable than ever before! !

MemOptimizer™ eliminates these hassles by automatically recovering memory from your system.

MemOptimizer™ strives to increase your system performance by performing four critical functions.

Key Features:
When you run low on memory, your programs slow down and your computer can start displaying error messages -- or even crash.
* Defragmenting your physical RAM By defragmenting your physical RAM, the layout of your virtual memory more closely matches the layout of your physical memory. This increases your memory cache hit rate and improves locality of reference for data, thereby increasing the efficiency of the L1 and L2 caches present on your processor or motherboard.
* Increasing the amount of RAM available MemOptimizer™ attempts to reclaim RAM from the operating system and applications, so that when the application you are currently using needs memory, it is readily available. This avoids costly swap file access and paging, decreases load time and improves application performance.
* Recovering memory leaks By recovering memory that was allocated and forgotten (leaked) by the operating system and poorly behaved applications, MemOptimizer™ can increase the amount of both physical and virtual memory available for use.
* Flushing unused libraries and DLLs Many applications and portions of the operating system load libraries that are infrequently used or not used at all; to improve performance, MemOptimizer™ safely flushes these DLLs and libraries out to the system paging file, freeing up the RAM normally used by them. While in this state, they are immediately and transparently reloaded if needed.

Comfort Lang Switcher is a tool helping to control and switch the language when you are working with text.

With Comfort Lang Switcher, you can:
- Switch the language or layout for the recently typed characters.
- Switch the language or layout for the selected characters.
- Change the case of the selected characters.
- Specify any key for switching the layout.
- Show the language flag next to the caret.
- Show the language flag in the system tray (next to the clock).

- Unmatched: Switch the language or layout for the recently typed characters.
- Original: Switch the language or layout for the selected characters.
- Change the case of the selected characters.
- Specify any key for switching the layout.
- Unmatched: Show the input language flag next to the caret.
- Show the input language flag in the system tray (next to the clock).

Comfort Lang Switcher will be perfect for those users who work with several languages, but still do not entrust automatic switchers with switching the language or layout.

It is completely compatible with Microsoft® Windows Vista, XP and 2000.

We are sure that you will certainly find the features that you exactly need.

Driver Magician offers a professional solution for device drivers backup, restoration, update and removal in Windows operating system. It identifies all the hardware in the system, extracts their associated drivers from the hard disk and backs them up to a location of your choice. Then when you format and reinstall/upgrade your operating system, you can restore all the "saved" drivers just as if you had the original driver diskettes in your hands. After one system reboot, your PC will be loaded and running with the required hardware drivers.

What's more, Driver Magician has a built in database of the latest drivers with the ability to go to the Internet to receive the driver updates. It saves lots of time to find the correct drivers and mature drivers will obviously increase the performance of hardware. If there are unknown devices in your PC, Driver Magician helps you detect them easily and quickly with its built in hardware identifier database.

Key features
Back up device drivers of your computer in four modes.
Restore device drivers from backup in one mouse click.
Update device drivers of your PC to improve system performance and stability.
Uninstall device drivers
Live Update device identifier database and driver update database.

Anapod Explorer, made by music lovers for music lovers. Finally, iPod software that integrates your iPod into Windows the way it should have been, and then brings you tons of cool features you won't find anywhere else. All in a 1MB package. You like?

Features:
Windows Integrated, What Else?
What could be more natural, simple, and powerful than accessing your iPod as a device in My Computer? Browse your iPod using Explorer folders, right-click menus, and drag and drop, it's all there, just like you expect it to be. The less energy you waste figuring out how to interface with your iPod, the more you can enjoy your music. Excellent.

Versatile Transfer
Quick, easy music and data transfer to and from your iPod is a must. Anapod makes it simple using drag and drop, Send To menus, and copy and paste. Advanced Transfer Management gives you expert control over tag handling, while SpeedSync keeps your iPod up-to-date with your PC music collection and Podcasts downloaded with other podcasting software. Anapod even shows you how well your USB or Firewire is performing! Anapod supports MP3, WMA (see AudioMorph below), WAV, M4A/AAC, QuickTime, MPEG-4, iTunes Music Store music, and more. Photo transfer is provided by our PhotoSync feature. Cool!

Description:
Responsible for a network that includes Windows XP computers -- XP Professional or XP Home? You need a book you can turn to whenever you have a problem, and a book that can help you make the most of your network. Microsoft Windows XP Networking Inside Out is that book.

With help from Microsoft insiders, Curt Simmons and James Causey cover every facet of Windows XP networking, old and new. And when you look closely at Windows XP, there are a surprising number of new networking features. Windows Messenger. Remote Desktop and Remote Assistance. Internet Connection Firewall. IE 6 and Outlook Express 6. Simple File Sharing. Each is covered in detail here -- including tradeoffs and limitations.
Even if you manage Windows networks for a living, you’re likely to learn plenty you didn’t know. Were you aware there are third-party products that can speed access to commonly-used IP addresses by eliminating the need for FQDN-to-IP address mapping? Or that you can propagate a set of email and newsgroup configurations to multiple computers by exporting them as .IAF files? Or that you can use the Internet Connection Firewall log file as a “Big Brother” tool to see which sites each of your PC’s users have visited?

You’ll find solid overviews of wireless networking, network security, and performance monitoring. And if you’re a working administrator, you’ll especially appreciate the authors’ troubleshooting guidance on NTFS file permissions. Add it all up and you’ve got a Windows networking resource you can really rely on.